Flesh-file.



N. E. SIBLEY.

FLESH m5.

APPLICATION FILED JAN- 7, I9I6.

1 393,9 1 8. Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

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NETTIE E. SIBLEY, O1 SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FLESH-FILE.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. '7, 1916.

Original application filed November 8, 1918, Serial No. 799,912. Divided and this application filed January 1 7, 1916. Serial No. 70,757.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NETTIE E. SI1 3LEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Flesh-File, of which the following is a specification, the same being a divisional part of my application filed in the United States Patent Oflice November 8, 1913, and serially numbered 799,912.

My invention relates to improvements in abrading devices or implements for removing calluses, excrescences such as hard corns, and other unnatural or undesirable thickened and hardened flesh formations from the feet and other parts of the body, and said invention resides in the peculiar combination of parts and elements which enter into the construction of the file, and in the process for making the composition em- 'ployed in the construction thereof, all as hereinafter set forth.

The object of my invention is to produce a practical and economical implement of the class described above, which not only possesses the necessary abrading qualifications made available by convenient means, but is antiseptic so that there is no danger of injurious effects of any kind following the application of the implement or file to the flesh, even though such file came in contact with the blood through broken tissue. It is needless to say that this antiseptic feature is of the utmost importance in an implement which is brought so intimately into relation with the flesh of the human body.

Crushed quartz is the best and practically the only suitable abrading'material known for application to the flesh or cuticle.

. Owing to the peculiar nature of such material it is diflicult, if not impractical or impossible, to unite and apply it in the form of a coating of proper thickness on a body member of wood, and to secure it in such form to such member, as must be done in the construction of my file, wherefore it becomes necessary to use for this purpose a compound of paste and glue, neither paste nor glue alone being adequate for such purpose.

of the complete file is at all for abrading purposes.

Attention is further called to the fact that much difficulty exists in the matter of selecting antiseptics of suflicient potency, antiseptics which at the same time have no in- ]l1I10l1S effect on the cuticle or in case they reach the blood, and which can be properly and advantageously combined with crushed quartz, a difficulty that I have in and by this invention entirely overcome.

Other objects and advantages will aptpear 1n the course of the following descrip- I attain the objects and secure the advantages of my invention in part by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which V Figure 1 is a side elevation of a file which is a practical embodiment of my invention; F g. 2, an edge elevation of said file. and, Fig. 3, a central transverse longitudinal sec tion through the same.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

As clearly shown in the drawings, the file in the physical aspect of its complete form consists of a fiat body portion made preferably of wood and divided into a handle 1 and a blade or shank 2, and a coating 3 of abrading antiseptic materials held together and caused firmly to adhere to said shank by means of a compound of paste and glue. The shape of the shank 2 and that of the handle 1 may vary to a greater or less extent, but said shank should have substantially parallel sides, or, in other words, should be generally flat in order that the coating 3 may be applied thereto to the best advantage. The coating 3 covers both sides and edges and the point or forward end of the shank 2, so that said shank is completely incased in said coating and the shank portion points a ailable The coating 3 consists of powdered quartz, boric acid, borax, oil of sweet birch, and thymol. These materials or ingredients are combined in substantially the following proportions :-To 100 pounds of the quartz are added one and one-half pints of the acid and one ounce of borax, and one-half ounce of the oil and one ounce of thymol. The boric acid and borax are added to the quartz and with the hands thoroughly mixed therewith. The oil of sweet 'birch is dissolved in three ounces of alcohol, then the thymol is added, and this solution is sprayed over the quartz and also mixed thoroughly therewith as in the other case. The mixture thus prepared is sifted before using, if necessary. As a binder and aflixer for the above mixture, I employ flour paste and ground glue combined tvhile hot. The shank 2 is dipped into the adhesive mixture or glue-paste, and then what may be termed the quartz mixture is poured over the already coated surface of said shank with the result that the latter mixture is formed into and forms finally the coating 3 which is hard and permanent except as worn away by use. Two dippings and two applications of the quartz mixture, usually about two days apart, are required to form the coating 3.-

The abrading and antiseptic mixture or compound is prepared by first thoroughly commingling with a quantity of powdered quartz proportionately small quantities of boric acid and borax, and then spraying thereon and thoroughly mixing therewith a proportionately small quantity of oil of sweet birch dissolved in alcohol and having added thereto a proportionately small quantity of thymol.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The process of making an abrading and antiseptic mixture or compound, for flesh files, consisting in mixing with powdered quartz boric acid and borax, in spraying such mixture with oilof birch dissolved in alcohol and to which thymol has been added, and in mixing all of the said elements together.

2. An abrading and antiseptic coating, for flesh files, consisting of a quantity of powdered quartz having thoroughly worked into it proportionately small quantities of boric acid and borax, a proportionately small quantity of oil of sweet birch dissolved in alcohol and having added thereto a proportionately small quantity of thymol, said oil and thymol also being thoroughly worked,

into said quartz with said acid and borax, and a binder of paste and glue for the aforesaid elements.

NETTIE E. SIBLEY. 

